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Pokemon is a series that is known for being family friendly, but every once in a while, there are certain things that have to be censored before it can be presented to western audiences, and sometimes, the things that have to be censored are much more mature and crazy than you might think! That is exactly what we are covering in today's video, so I hope you enjoy!
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In Pokémon Adventuers, Sapphire (May) has her gym battle with Flannery LITERALLY NAKED IN A SPRING.
@@wetown1972 What the-?
Hoops I agree these people at 4kids are dumb and way too sensitive
@@wetown1972 In the same manga, Sapphire finds Flannery bruised and beaten, tied up and locked in the cable car after she tried to stop Team Magma from going to Mt. Chimney.
@@haydenlaw1484 Don’t forget the tentacool joke in the first volume
Game Freak: We wanted to make a Pokémon based on Dolly the Sheep but thought it could be controversial due to the debate on the ethics of cloning. Gen 1: * Literally details the cloning process used to create Mewtwo *
It's probably because the Sheep Pokémon would have been based off of a real life event and Mewtwo isn't. Still doesn't make sense though...
@M.B yep
@Sammstudios yeah
@VenomousBingo I agree
mareep: exists
It's ironic that they scrapped out the cloned sheep Pokémon from the game, when just the previous generation has Mewtwo as a legendary and in the first movie the whole cloning thing is a main plot point
I know right!
Not really ironic, but definitely interesting. The difference is that with Mewtwo you have it being cloned from basically an alien/fetus-like creature in Mew that may or may not have been from Earth vs a direct reference to real world controversy. A kid might not pick up on it, but the adults actually buying the games might hear about it and have a problem, so the team erred on the side of caution
@@swanson2830 pokemon are the creatures of their world so it's pretty much the same thing lool that's what strange about not including another cloned pokemon
@@maganhassan2627 true, but when the only people that have the money to do so at the time were people like Giovanni of Team Rocket? And the lab ended up being destroyed after the fact
@@swanson2830 the cloned sheep pokemon could have started like mewtwo by a group of scientists developing it but later bred so not much difference there 🤷♂️🤣
Light match: exists 4Kids: We, we don’t do that here
Lol
Our profile pictures look very similar
@@eepicmeltan3212 there the same picture
@@Lumberjack_king mines just zoomed in more
@@eepicmeltan3212 yes
They censored matches, yet we’re in a world with FIRE TYPE MONSTERS
The fact they still make matches and have said fire mons is something. lol
Hellhounds and dragons are fine, It's just the lit matches that trigger them lol
LOGIC!!! 😃
@@Chloethepikachu100 PokeLogic lol
They didn't want kids to mimic the behavior of Meowth and light matches. If your kid can mimic the behavior of a Charizard, then you probably have bigger problems than fire hazards.
"The manga is easily the most adult form of Pokemon media" R34 Artists: Look at what they need to mimic a fraction of out power.
In official media R34 isn't official
@@redlion-paladin4609 And let's be thankful it isn't.
@@katrinachavali416 yes
@@UnknownUser178. 😞
@@katrinachavali416 The manga already is a blight on the franchise in the same exact way, so I don't know what god you're thanking but they didn't do their job.
I actually owned both Sabrina gaze cards as a kid and even looking at it as an adult I’m confused on how they would confuse that is flipping someone off 🤷🏻♂️
Dont understand
2nd reply 1st is the worst 2nd best
The middle finger is natually longer than the other fingers, and if the other fingers are bent to hold a pokeball, it is just a bit more long, but there's no way it's a flip off amerika!
My god same
It’s hilarious because there’s no reason.
5:35 magmortar went from pointing its blaster at the cam to doing the "up yours" gesture they had to patch that out of Mario Kart 8 deluxe when inkling did it
Maybe he just wanted a hand shake but never got it
THATS WHAT I THOUGHT
I'm pretty sure the severe censorship of matches and lighters was because the first season of Pokémon came out after a huge news story with a little kid who used a lighter to set his house on fire was blamed on an episode of Beevis and Butthead where they played with fire. His baby sister died in the the fire and it made national news in the US. A lot of cartoons around that time censored the use of lighters and matches due to the incident, including season 1 of South Park. Dynamite and bombs (so long as the effect was comical and not violent) were fine because kids typically didn't have them lying around the house.
Despite 4Kids bizarre censorship we would’ve never gotten the infamous “jelly filled doughnuts” meme if it weren’t for them. As for the Adventures manga in particular I understand some censors (like Blue ripping off her top to reveal hidden pokeballs) though one I find a bit odd is Crystals mother slapping her. I’m guessing the reason they did this is cause it might come off as abuse parenting but I find it funny that a slap of all things got censored despite there being a Pokémon being cut in half, a person being stabbed by a Pokémon, characters dying, etc.
You can get banned from Facebook for typing doughnut or calling someone a doughnut.
@@bigjay870 what?
I think you mean green not blue
@@theunovanative7640 it’s both depending on which version you go by. She’s Green in the west (U.S.) and Blue in the East (Japan)
@@AlexDayz she's not Green, she's Blue. There's Green Oak, but he's Red's rival.
Sometimes it is crazy to see how pervy japan can be but then also wild and stupid how scared of things like culture and diversity usually american importers/companies are.
r/IHadAStroke
What are you trying to say?
imposter sus???????
@@beautifulworld0109 basically saying american media censors stupid stuff all the time, while japan can be inappropriate on kids tv and it be fine
@@beautifulworld0109 I could read it fine
I would literally pay money to attend a tcg tournament where players are allowed to use imakuni's doduo. I KNOW hilarity would ensue
off topic but i like your pfp, where's it from
@@deadeyeddog one piece
its basicly like when Magic drops a UN-set, its a silly fun expansion with wierd cards like that
@@deadeyeddog hi Taka
The sandwich thing is one of the most bizarre things that I have seen in my life when talking about censorship. I remember seeing that scene as a child (I think it happened several times) and being very (very) confused by that mysterious flying sandwich, I think that got stuck in my head for years. o.O
I dont see how that’s weird they are just replacing jelly donuts with sandwiches. A bit of an odd complaint about censoring japanese food when clearly they are just showing normal jelly donuts that everyone loves
You'd think they would change it to a jelly donut.
Or, ya know an oversized cheese wheel!
8:59 The fact that Jessie and James have type of lighter seems to suggest they smoke, which might be why it’s censored.
@@creepyeevee yeah but I just think that’s probably the reasoning. If it was designed more like a barbecue lighter then it probably would have been fine.
I remember Meowth holding that lighter in my VHS copy of that episode.
@@creepyeevee yeah because almost every episode literally says "team rocket is blasting off again" who knows where they land
0:45 "Your balls will thank you!" We need some censorship here
Your balls won't thank you anymore!
The word "bomb" was likely cut from the anime (and possibly other kids shows) not for the intended audience, but rather for anyone either working or has worked in some level of military or law enforcement that might have been trained to instinctively react to someone yelling or saying the word "bomb". Yes, it can still potentially be a 4Kids level of stretch, but there's at least some method to the madness on that one.
Imagine if they called it like Highly Explosive metal ball Rain down the highly explosive metal balls
@@raymondveritas5255 That might work for a Victorian-era episode, especially if they followed it up with a "forthwith" or "posthaste".
Or presumably due to the towers…
@@UltimateFunBilly That's a possibility as well.
Me a this other kid were playing the Pokemon card game in the library and the Moltres card had an attack called "Dive Bomb" on it. So we said the name of the attack, the librarian overheard us and we got accused of "making a bomb threat".
11:00 "change to fit the western audience" Localization. The term you’re looking for, is localization.
Shut up :D
@@FOTHER_MUCKER Love you too
so u from america huh
@@hello8965 nope. Im from germany.
@@aborealisglfry oh ok i thought u were america cuz u used emerican spelling
I think that some of 4 Kids’ censorship, especially with matches and bombs, had to due with FCC regulations and network standards. You have to remember that the show originally aired on over the air television channels.
I remember a VA or someone who used to work at 4kids(i wanna say Mike Pollock the Pokemob narrator not sure actually) saying that it WAS due to FCC/Network regulations at the time. Otherwise they wouldn't have done some of the censorship
It's true. Standards & Practices usually cracks down on what are called "replicatible actions", basically anything a kid could replicate themselves. Kids don't have dynamite, but they may try to use a lighter, for instance. That's why a lot of kinda tame stuff was taken out, but other more dangerous stuff is often kept in.
@@wraithgames i think the va was specifically talking about the jelly donuts and that sandwich replacement but yea that too
@@Deadgirl97I’d like to ask some of the 4Kids VAs and staff to see if, out of curiosity, they’d be interested to be a part of a, hypothetical, mostly uncut dub of the first 8 seasons (the ones 4Kids were in charge of).
The Electric Tale of Pikachu manga was actually drawn by a guy who generally does hentai series. Just a fun fact.
if that's true, that explains a lot
He's talking about pocket monsters manga though...
EToP is a manga for simps, confirmed.
@@maganhassan2627 He still showed some shots from EToP. Like that one with Jessie's bust being noticeably shrunk. I just wanted to bring it up because it's kind of an amusing fact imo.
@@al145 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshihiro_Ono His Wikipedia article mentions it. I can definitely believe it with how boobies all the girls are 😅
We all know the reason the first video did so well was because of the thumbnail.
Speaking of censored/banned cards, are you going to mention Uri Geller, the -con artist- psychic that got Kadabra cards banned from being printed for many years?
12:14 They're still altars, but now they just depict our lord and savior, Diglett
You know what I find really funny about 4kids going out of their way to remove references to Japanese culture from a Japanese show? The fact that I, growing up in Germany watching lots of American shows and movies (even most of our anime dubs were based on the American dub), was always so confused by the fact that, for example, characters in those shows and movies did things in school that I never encountered. Eating lunch at school? Every student gets their own locker? The school has its own sports team? Cheerleaders? Pep rallies? Homecoming dances? Spelling Bee? I just find it funny that we got confronted with so many foreign concepts as kids, meanwhile 4kids thought American kids wouldn't understand what a rice ball is.
Watching anime it’s the same deal. I doubt an American kid has ever seen or eaten a rice ball before but it’s not that hard to know it’s made of rice (you can see the rice)
Where do you eat lunch during school in Germany? Do you get to go out?
I feel like you could do an entire episode on the 4kids censorship in the early pokemon anime days
The only thing I agree with 4kids on was pronouncing Regice REGIrock REGIsteel REGIgigus REGIdrago REGIleki REGice why
I think he should
can we take a moment to appreciate this guy having the balls to accept a sponsorship for shaving balls
Lol
On a Pokemon video
The move Egg Bomb: *exists* 4kids: *sweats heavily*
that episode with the matchs, it remind me of a tale of a little girl how had to sell them (i think it was christmas eve ?) or her dad wouldn't nourish her, she said that her house is colder than all the wind and snow outside but no one buy her matchs, she was too afraid to go home so she stayed in the street, she felt realy cold so she decide to light the matchs and every time she light one she imagine beautiful thaughts: a big warm room with a table full of food, a christmas tree, but then when she got to the last one she saw her grandma, she was so happy to see her and grandma take the little girl with her, the next day peoples find the little girl dead in the snow, grandma was a ghost and not the little girl imagination she was taking her to the after life, i like that story but god...that's so deppresing, anyway the reason it make me think of that story is because Team Rocket do the same thing in a snow setting, they light theire matchs and imagine warm stuff and i believe they had 3 of them like the little girl in that story, it's so similar that i wonder if it's a direct reference since pokemon like to do that (sorry if i make error ^ ^')
I know the story you're talking about. That was Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl." This is the same person who wrote the story "The Little Mermaid" - (not to be confused with the Disney adaptation). Both had very bitter-sweet endings. I just recently read these stories and was surprised at how different they are perceived now, as opposed to how they were written.
@@TBaker-xu5is yes ! this is the one ! i think i know the little mermaid one too but only the ending come to mind, i think the prince marry a human woman and the mermaid let them be together 🤔 ? in the end she sit in a rock and wach as the boat is floating away, and then we have the realy dark versions of the Disneys by the Brother Grimm where she end up comiting suicide and other well known tales like : Pinocchio ( who still very dark as a Disney ), cinderella, Snow White ect., so of course it was necessary to change them for the kids, because if it was not the case insted of having good childwood memory we would have been traumatized 😂
Imakuni's Doduo was clearly never meant to be used at tournaments so it's not exactly a "WILD example of Pokémon censorship"
I don't get why it's banned
Manscape: "your balls will thank you"
“A good punch in the face”?? Jeez Hoops, calm down!
The western world must not know of the existence of rice balls 🍙
Samus' artwork for SSBB also had her arm cannon pointed at the viewer, so the whole Magmortar TCG thing was unnecessary.
I think it’s the same reason registeel sprite was changed
@@kirbmaster9405 Registeel was changed for the pose resembling a Nazi salute which definitely isn't what Magmortar is doing there
@@autumncookie5588 ok
Noooo what did they do to Red? I guess that first Clefairy manga and the buddhist sculpters are the only forms of censorship that i can understand given the obvious tone (explicit nudity in the manga, and the religious references going against Nintendo of America's guidelines), but everything else like the sandwich replacement and "blasters" was just ridiculous.
Wait i don't understand why is religion not allowed in Nintendo of America?
@@Alx-di6pt I honestly have no idea. It makes sense now, but I don't understand about 30 years ago when (I think) it was set in stone. Cause games like Zelda originally had an item called "Bible" which was changed to "Book of Magic" in the U.S. Why? I don't know either.
Well, I have the Brazilian translation for Pokémon Adventures, and nothing was censored. The crucification, Crystal being slapped by her mother, Green's top being damaged to reveal Pokéballs, everything. Well, except Jynx's skin color, but that was expected.
Censorship isn't always about what's graphic. Kids can get ahold of a lighter, so if they see someone on TV playing with one they can copy that behavior. They typically can't get ahold of dynamite.
That's also why some shows censor handguns but not things like bazookas.
How would a cloned sheep be more controversial than the clone Mewtwo or seemingly cloned Fossils?
I guess because the sheep was a reference to something irl, meanwhile the fossils and Mewtwo are completely fictional. That's my guess anyways
@@autumncookie5588 what about the thousands of animal based pokemon
I can sorta explain the match thing as in the late 80’s and early 90’s, there was this whole psa thing going on of kids playing with matches, which can lead fire damage. And being a kid of the 90’s in the US, I can vouch for that. Also slight thing, not really needed to call out someone and wishing physical harm for just doing their job.
Only YOU can prevent wildfires
@@andymoreno1847 AND I CHOOSE NOT TO MUAHHAHAHA *commits arson*
This isn’t your average everyday Pikaface….. This is Advanced Pikaface 😮😮😮😮😮
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Things like this help me realize how many references the anime has in the US that draw from media that never made it overseas, like Red/Clefairy's little TV scene or some of the artwork from the original "Pokedex" book being used to model stuff like a statue in the museum where Fossils end up being revived.
5:08 "Oh shish, we have to censor Magmortar, he points his cannon at the person" "how should we censor Magmortar" "I got it, lets make him do the french version of Flipping the bird" "Dammit Ron, you're a genius"
The early edits were explainable, kids are impressionable, and while it would be rare, all it would take is one lawsuit against the franchise because a kid burnt down their house because they saw the characters playing with lighters and matches and thought it was ok for things to go wrong, especially with new media. Also, a lot of what is changed is for familiarity, that way people get hooked to the series before they begin to try and explain the actual complexities, take for instance the Jelly Donuts dub instead of saying Rice Balls, kids in the U.S most likely when the episode first aired didn't know what a Rice Ball was or why they were eating it so a Jelly Donut would have made more sense to them even if it didn't make sense to the episode. If you're wondering how I know this? I have had to censor media before, there is a literal set of guidelines you have to follow, basically, most of it boils down to how likely is a context is to be impressionable to an audience and or if they will understand to be engaged enough to continue following the story. A friend of mine who has been a network censor for 30 years once stated that nowadays because of the internet kids know and understand more world culture than they ever used to, so they have been able to leave more foreign stories to be undoctored, and with shifting views about stuff such as Homosexuality, racial issues, and more stuff that would have been red flags back in the day are now allowed.
Yeah wasnt there a kid that burned down his house and killed his toddler sister cuz he saw Beavis and Butthead playing with matches? I think a bunch of schools banned any merch of the show on premises to try and discourage kids from watching it and the network put a bunch of restrictions on it. But that was only a few years before the first Pokemon eps came out over here so I can see why 4Kids wouldn't want to show matches
@@srg24601I heard that even South Park censored out lighters and matches for a time as well.
I'm pretty sure Imakuni is the person who sang the Japanese Pokemon rap.
Honestly, the localizing of food items isn't stupid to me. I mean, the way they did it, yeah, but not the concept of it, mainly because its meant for kids so it just makes things more understandable. That being said, it would be better if the "jelly donuts" were actually changed to jelly donuts instead of just looking like them, and if they were consistent by turning the giant rice balls into giant jelly donuts instead of sandwiches. But again, the concept to me makes sense, much like when they change jokes and sayings instead of just directly translating them. Its localization, after all. But the Magmortar TCG one is just the funniest to me. Yeah, there's others where its like "why would you think that's necessary?", but that one just feels like "we can't have the imaginary arm cannon aimed at the player or it will look too much like we're shooting them, so let's change the pose to make it look like a guy pumping a shotgun with one hand on TV." A fictional weapon aimed at kids in a still image? No. A pose referencing reloading a real weapon with the Pokemon looking ready for battle? Much better.
I can't belive I just read all of that
The first time onigiri show up in the anime… the dub just straight-up calls them riceballs. No localisation attempt, even when the show was editing yen into dollars. It's so weird that the policy changed like that.
tauros episode: shows guns 4kids: oh, i don't think so squirtle episode: also shows guns 4kids: i'll allow it
Tbh I wouldn't mind keeping the japanese card version of magmortor, but yeah some censorships in pokemon is kinda dumb
Watching this video as a 23 year old girl...seeing shaving product placements....being highly confused...skipping the product placement :D
7:07 Lillie: “The ritual is almost complete I only need Skyla, Elesa and Lenora. The other 3 will used to power the ritual it needs make me stronger to make me best girl of Unova.” *Lillie soon begin power up and change slightly* Lillie: “I feel so warm, fly and electrifying!!!” (( How do think think she appear and gain from the all of her scrafices
7:07 Always look on the bright side of life.
Lillie who?
Bro that uncensored sabrina card looks dope.
Another thing that doesn't make sense about the change of the Magmortar card is that in the "censored" version he appears to be doing an offensive gesture. You know the same one that Nintendo edited out from both Super Mario RPG (Bowser's victory pose) & Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (one of Inkling's animation when jumping of a ramp)
I’ve been looking at Magmortor wrong this whole time. I thought the shoulder fire was part of it’s head
The Imakuni cards are just like the Magic: The Gathering Unglued sets. Crazy joke cards that really weren’t meant for tournament play. The doduo puts me in mind, specifically, of Chaos Confetti. It instructs you to abuse your card for its effect.
it´s not only the unglued set, but rather all the "Un-"-sets (Unglued, Unhinged, Unstable, Unsanctioned). They all were made for "fun"-purposes and used mechanics that are..... "impractical" for tournaments, or a competetive environment in general. A few examples: the instant "Sacrifice Play" : A person outside the game chooses an attacking or blocking creature target opponent controls. That player sacrifices that creature. the ability "Blurry": This creature can be blocked only if defending player was wearing glasses as it was cast. and other abilities that refer to mostly aesthetics of cards (which, in regular play, are do not change the card itself, or cannot be interacted with), which includes flavour text, border color and such and then my favourite: "Slaying Mantis", which has the etb-ability: "Slaying Mantis enters the battlefield by being thrown from a distance of at least three feet. When Slaying Mantis enters the battlefield, it fights each creature an opponent controls that it touched as it entered." The nice thing about these sets: Wizards of the Coast can use these sets to "test concepts", which will sometimes get slightly changed to actually be used in a competetive environment (my guess would be, that the "vehicle" artifact type and mechanic originated from at least an idea initially made for an Un-Set.
@@jurare89 - Well, when it came to the card abuse I mentioned, I specifically had Chaos Confetti in mind, which came from either Unglued 1 or 2. That card, you’re supposed to tear it into pieces. No one I know did. They would use a proxy of some sort.
That Magmorter Japan card looks awesome, my only argument is James Bond literally shoots the viewer in the famous opening with the famous Bond music. So lighting the fuse is bad, but exploding is good. Same as the guns. Ash wanting Super Potion, but gets guns pointed at him, but the Safari Zone is bad because the sheriff shoots at them, but Team Rocket can bomb people. Those aren't jam filled doughnuts, those are rice balls, Brock even s them jelly filled in that episode, I don't mind a rice ball, but the original artists should diverse the food used in the anime.
I STILL don't understand why not introduce to kids different foods from different countries are rice balls wrong to eat??
@@maganhassan2627 I know. Same goes for the original animators of the anime. Don't always use rice balls, you can use sandwiches or fruit/berries as well.
@@maganhassan2627 I think the main reason for the change is that they worry kids won't understand what a rice ball is, since we really don't have anything quite like it here in America. That said, if nothing else, it could lead to people looking it up out of curiosity if it was left unchanged, but most kids might not and just be left to wonder
Yeah, but James Bond isn't a kids' series.
@@DarthSanguine I know, but children still watch it.
Hmm... speaking of removing religious references, it kind of ties into a personal theory of mine as to why Arceus is pronounced the way it is in the West: the original context. It's name was originally a portmanteau of "Arch", basically "high", and "Deus", which is Latin for "God", so "Arch/High God", hence the original Japanese pronunciation, "Ar-SEH-us", (not "Ar-see-us", which is more anglicized) as opposed to "Ar-kee-us", the official English pronunciation, derived from Archon or Archean, both of which are words used to refer to ancient beings, which Arceus happens to be. So yeah, my theory is that the localized pronunciation was altered to minimize religious references, with the anglicized pronunciation's ("Ar-see-us") unfortunate resemblance to an inappropriate term simply being the Cherry on Top, but that's just my take on it.
9:01 That was shown in India I clearly remember screaming Ash run! Meowth lighted the dynamite fuse!
I heard Clearfairy grabbed his sack in the manga
10:41 Hey man, saying the word “bomb” is no joke, the TSA will get you! (But no seriously the TSA will be all like “hey! Don’t say ‘bomb’!” if you do say it in an airport)
Regarding the flamethrower arm, there is apparently a law in the west regarding children's media that fans any sort of firearm being pointed directly at the camera or viewer, which is not limited to real-world firearms but even includes things like Mega Man's arm cannon.
Brock: look tasty jelly doughnut. The earth:🤦
Wait, I didn't realize that manga was a separate one and never released here. I have the first volume of Pokemon Adventures as well as the manga version of Pikachu, I Choose You. Is there a good breakdown of what each manga is, how it relates to each other, reading order, how/where to read, etc?
Adventures are best read in generational sets, in order. If you're on gen 1, red, green, blue, and yellow, try to progress them steadily, each will show different perspectives and fill each other's plot holes. Though greens first chapter takes place before the boys or yellows, there's gotta be a guide somewhere that can give you a better explanation
“Sabrina’s Gaze” isn’t the only Pokémon TCG card from the 2 Gym expansions with different artwork in America-the artwork for the Japanese version of the card “Misty’s Tears” shows a topless Misty embracing a Staryu; the American version’s artwork shows Misty weeping (if you look really closely, you can see that here, she’s wearing a top) and a Squirtle trying to dry her tears.
'It's tough fetching pokeballs from my bikini.' Said by one of the bikini girls in the USUM games.
The reason they'd cut out the lighter, but not the dynamite, is because kids are less likely to get their hands on dynamite, than a lighter. Also, functionally speaking, rice balls are the Japanese equivalent of a sandwich, so replacing them with a sandwich makes a lot of sense.
For a brief second I couldn't even tell what was happening on the moomoo milk art. Another weird case of the censored version looking better.
Keep it up on your work and this channel
I’m fully behind playing it safe, but there’s a line between “playing it safe” and “being too paranoid”. 8:10 This manga just now gives me OG Dragon Ball vibes.
I bet editing out the matches comes from the fact matches are actual things kids might find around the house and might play with. You're not going to have cartoony dynamite laying around, and in the case of candles, it'd need a lighter to light it, which is also censored. I can perfectly imagine a kid wanting to light a match after seeing it on tv, specially since seeing it being done might give them the security that they can handle it without problems. Something like 'I know how to do it, I'll be fine!'
Pokémon: A few look like guns if you squint hard enough. Digimon: GUNDRAMON
The lit match thing makes perfect sense. They don't want kids lighting matches and burning their house down. But unlit matches aren't dangerous, and could be held by kids without something happening
10:00 People at 4kids entertainment need a good punch in the face! 4kids: ToO gRaPhIc, OnLy SlApPiNg Is AlLoWeD
the removal of the lighter and match makes sense in the way that if a kid found one of those things and didn't know what it was they wouldn't be able to figure it out
Ok but I would love to own the card where Magmortar's basically holding you at gunpoint
That original Magmortar art is awesome man!
"Cloning is definitely ethical" -Mewtwo
I remember those stupid sandwiches looking goofy compared to the rest of the animation in the Diamond and Pearl series, now it makes sense why
the reason some of the 4kids censorship seems so inconsistent or weird is because 4kids didnt have a massive budget so they couldnt make new scenes from scratch, but were also limited on how much they could cut due to a minimum runtime requirement
"By the power of 4Kids and sexism, I can win this duel" -Joey Wheeler, Yu-Gi-Oh The Abridged Series (Episode 4)
Funny because since about 2014 with the whole older SJW cancel culture fools from Kotaku and Polygon tonwhen it got worst in 2019 freaking 4 kids entertainment backnfrom 1998-2002 they were already pretending to be Sjws and cancel culture vultures and Censorship stuff for kids and teens that like watching dirty bad stuff i did a few times kn classic VHS and dvd players when i was a 90's kid to mid late 2000's teenager back then and i tured out ok .!!! The only differ3nce was the social justice warriors in the late 90s early 2000's did not dye their hair pink blue or purple thank god.but man that stuff pissed me the hell off when isaw them censor stuff like digimon and yu-gi-oh too made me real angrybupset back then even as an earlyb30s adlut it still makes me cringe and angry as hell thatbthese SJW fake garbe polticicians wanna government Censorship everythinf fuk em i hopenall those government agrceny illuminati freemason NWO Rockefeller Roschilds Beilderberg FEMA camp police state evil occult satanic satanist Lucifer devil worshipper burn in hell .but yeah dude this is nothing new this goes way beyond the pokemon franchise
The list: 2:12 Miltank udders in the TCG and anime 3:35 Scrapped Gen 2 Pokémon based on Dolly the sheep 4:55 TCG Magmortar card art (also I disagree with the opinion that it wasn't a problem, just look at the amount of tragedies at US schools) 6:06 TCG Sabrina card art 6:55 Pokémon manga - revealing outfits and nudity 8:41 A cigarette lighter in the anime 9:17 Matches in the anime 10:02 Usage of the word "bomb" in the anime 10:46 Japanese cuisine in the anime 11:40 Buddhism and Shinto related items in the Gen 1 and Gen 2 games 12:36 Imakuni's Doduo TCG card (wtf, seriously, why does the card exist)
i think one of my fav things about the 4kids dub era of pokemon IS the censorship. you could often tell that the people working on it weren't super happy about the regulations they had to stand by, and so goofed on the changes as much as they possibly could. i think the jelly donut one is a great example, they repeat the description of it as a jelly donut to such a degree that it becomes blatantly absurd. they tried to get away with as much as they could with it lmao
5:10 I think the problem is the card looks to be a reference to a gangster movie just from where he's standing and pointing the barrel or his arm at you lol
making the giant flame tank beast creature not point its flamethrower arm at the camera for the sake of censorship is like putting out 1 tree in a forest fire and leaving
I work at a card shop and some guy came in and wanted to buy all of our Imakuni Doduos. We had 27 in stock and he bought every one. Guess he was getting a binder full of them xD
WHY DOES THE BOX SAY, "your balls, thank you." ??? I LAUGHED SO HARD AT THE PUN
it kinda would be funny to see that card played
Kind of wild that in the Japanese version of the game the Buddha is canon. Was he a Pokémon master? Did he catch ‘em all?
The matches were probably edited because a few years earlier a 5 year old was playing with matches after watching Beavis and Butthead and he ended up burning down his trailer and killing his younger sister. The parents in this case were extremely idiotic though, for one thing, why were the matches where he could reach them? Why didn't they teach him fire safety (seriously, I knew not to play with those at that age) and why were his parents letting him watch that anyway? I'm guessing 4Kids edited the matches so they wouldn't have a similar controversy.
Technically stuff like changing the food isn't necessarily censorship, Japanese food is less well known in places like the USA or European countries, so it's changed to help keep the same since of familiarity than to censor it.
Censorship tends to ruin everything. I’m interested in the originals more than the dubbed, and I’ll never be able to experience it due to sensitive people and their censorship.
I'd love to see more of the video where they're talking about the development of pokemon as show when talking about dolly, do you have the source for this?
i remember owning a japanese version of the Misty's Tears trading card. shes stark naked in the artwork with only the arms of a staryu conveniently placed. back in 1999 the card shop in my town had all the latest japanese expansions, before they even released, so everyone got these japanese cards. including that moo moo milk card. in the english release, the artwork just shows a close up of Misty's face, with nothing below the neck, and has a Squirtle trying to catch one of her tears.
They her naked like that how rude
I always knew that milktank was sus for example, I used to make jokes about it like this “milktank used drink your own fluids”
Charizard. *Literally fires a flamethrower in Ash's face* 4Kids: This is fine. Meowth: *Holds a match to keep himself warm* 4Kids: THIS IS VIOLENCE! DELETE DELETE DELETE! It might be because kids could potentially copy lighting a match while they can't breathe fire... but what kid hasn't seen their parents light a match before? Also it still shows that its perfectly okay to shove your face into a bonfire since Ash never actually gets HURT from Charizard's attack...
Some Scarlet/Violet moments: A possible drug dealer/consumer waiting for someone. Sadly don't know where the guy is. Real life Vtuber/idol abuse by the managers hinted by Iona's comments Arven's one parent abandoned him after he was born while his other parent was killed by a raging pokemon. Most likely the bully of your Koraidon/Miraidon or maybe even your legendary itself Penny's bed is full of pokemon hair and it can either be seen as typical cat/dog/fox like pokemon sleeping on her bed or can have a suggestive meaning. I mean, she does have a male vaporeon and by now gamefreak knows the meme. Not to mention that 3 of her pokemon are make and 2/6 also evolving by a strong friendship. One trainer dropping the line "Do you know..." which could be a reference to the vaporeon meme Then we're having Nemona being kind if a stalker (at least in a cute and not creepy form) And the professor of the game pretty much wanting to destroy the ecosystem of paldea by bringing Pokemon from a different timeline. To make sure no one messes with the plan, the professor also added a "kill all intruders" order to the ai.
dude the manga with red saying "you mean these?" is actually wild
I have the Imakuni's dodou, and let me just say, gameplay with it is *AMAZING*
I despise censorship, but I think that maybe the matches were edited out so that dumb kids wouldn’t burn down their houses down, then blame Pokemon. Stupid for sure, but I imagine that was their reasoning.
So what you're saying is, you dislike censorship but also see a reason why censorship exists.
@@davedavidson8208 why some censorship exists, sure.
No in the Attack of the prehistoric Pokémon episode it was ONLY in the Kids WB version .
Me: plays Imakuni's Doduo and proceeds to sing Squidward Nose
Who can forget the "jelly doughnuts" in the og cartoon and brought forward for EVERY VERSION
2:38 I found that scene to be heartwarming and adorable, actually. Shame they censored it.
Same just an animal nutrient babies wtf was wrong with that